Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Cal* Bostic Longing for You (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Joe* Glazer This Land is Your Land A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Low Skareggae
Jonathan Edwards Never Together Sailboat
Albert Jones* Mother Nature The Facts of Life
Ernie* Smith Freedom Street Skareggae
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Street Girl Love Serenade
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm Gonna Love You Baby I'm a Song
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Hard Days Night And I Love Her
Ellen McIlwaine Cure My Blues Everybody Needs It
Ernie* Smith Top Rankin Skankin To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding We the People
Yukon* Genius Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Ellen McIlwaine Regretting Blues Everybody Needs It
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Wedding March Ukrainian Pops
Cal* Bostic In Love Again (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Ellen McIlwaine Pinebo (My Story) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Aarons And Ackley* Could Have Had Anything You And I
Ellen McIlwaine Can't Find My Way Home Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Steal Him Away Ellen McIlwaine
Buddy Knox Devil Woman ST
Zambonis* Leave Your Stink at the Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* You Belong to Me You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Your Seduced Me Ти Ж Мене Підманула Ukrainian Pops
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Lady's Dream And I Love Her
Mike* Ferro Soldier In The Rain Bridges b/w Soldier In The Rain
Ellen McIlwaine Love and Devotion Ellen McIlwaine
Tony McManus Inveran - The Devil in the Kitchen - Locheil's Away to France The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Country Mcdonald Joe* Jean Desprez War War War
Joe* Glazer We are Building a New Party A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Albert Jones* That's the Way You Lost My Love The Facts of Life
Ernie* Smith Take Your Time To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Just a Few Words I'm a Song
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Maple Sugar Two Step Maple Sugar Two Step // I Want a Girl
Eddie* Murray Montreal, Canada Blues Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance
Loni Gamble Dance to it ST
Jonathan Edwards Carolina Caroline Sailboat
Priscilla* Rollins There Goes My Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Kolomayka Ukrainian Pops
Aarons And Ackley* Annalee ST
Cal* Bostic That's All Introducing...
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child
Priscilla* Rollins Sweet Inspiration Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Priscilla* Rollins Sad Movies Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Albert Jones* You Stole My Love The Facts of Life
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Halya Несе Галя Воду Ukrainian Pops
Buddy Knox Rock House ST
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Honky Tonk Angel
Jack Holland You Don't Have to Love Me The Eyes of a Dreamer
Zambonis* Mind Like a Playgroup To Bleed Black and Gold
Buddy Knox Hula Love ST (mono)
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Till You're Loving Me Again I'm a Song
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Call War War War
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Jakiv Came to Visit Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars I Want a Girl Maple Sugar Two Step // I Want a Girl
Loni Gamble In love for the First Time ST
Nelson* Riddle Moving Ahead British Columbia Suite
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Alpha Centauri I'm a Rebel ST
Buddy Knox Party Doll ST
Jack Holland The Eyes of a Dreamer The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Aarons And Ackley* There Is A Lady ST
Alpha Centauri Love Only You ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Theme For the Countless And I Love Her
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Theme from Canada Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine Isn't That So Ellen McIlwaine
Buddy Knox That's Why I Cry ST (mono)
Ernie* Smith Oh But If I Skareggae
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Bukovynian Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ernie* Smith Don't Down Me Now To Behold Jah
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Presque Isle Eighth Three Quarter Promenade // Presque Isle Eighth
Oscar* McLollie The Way You Do the Things You Do ST
Zambonis* Hockey Marlee To Bleed Black and Gold
Buddy Knox Rock Around the Clock ST
Tony McManus The Maids of Mitchelstown The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite
Buddy Knox Teasable, Pleasable You ST (mono)
Albert Jones* Thank Goodness The Facts of Life
Ellen McIlwaine All to You We the People
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* You're My Honey I'm a Song
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Two Little Oaks On a Mountain Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Crawling Kingsnake Fear Itself
Zambonis* Haunted Hockey Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Buddy Knox I'm In Love With You ST
Jack Holland I'll Pick Her Up The Eyes of a Dreamer
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Good Time Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Jack Holland Sylvia The Eyes of a Dreamer
Buddy Knox Don't Make Me Cry ST
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Can't Eat Shirley Lewis Show Band
Mike* Ferro Bridges Bridges b/w Soldier In The Rain
Ellen McIlwaine Mossy Dream Fear Itself
Priscilla* Rollins Goody Goody Lover's Choice Vol. 1

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Priscilla* Rollins - Lover's Choice Vol. 1

Nassau, Bahamas - Toronto, Ontario

Eddie* Murray - Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance

FEATURED

Dils* - Made In Canada

San Diego, California, USA - Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ernie* Smith - To Behold Jah

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario

Matt Gets Blue

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (8)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (7)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (4)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (2)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (1)

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People (2)

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People (1)

War War War

Amist the Black Eyes

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 02

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